From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes

Jeff Kyong-McClain is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Habib Institute for Asian Studies at the University of Idaho. His research focuses on the history of academic disciplines, Sino-American educational exchange, and Christianity in Sichuan. He is coeditor of Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization and Chinese History in Geographical Perspective. Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is Professor of History and Director of the Global Asia Institute at Pace University in New York, and his research focuses on Christianity in China. He recently coedited Empire Competition (2022) and The Church as Safe Heaven (2019).

Introduction: Trajectories of the History of Sino-American Educational Exchange PART I: Student-Faculty Exchanges in Late Qing—Early Republican Era 1. The World’s Chinese Students’ Journal and American-influenced Education Reforms on the Eve of Revolution in China, 1905–1911 2. The Emerging Chinese Public Intellectual: Ma Yinchu in the United States, 1907–1914 3. Sailing to China: The Transnational Experience of Gregory Dexter Walcott at Tsinghua PART II: Curriculum Development and Campus Experience in Nanjing Decade 4. Being Human: Yenching Educator Wu Leichuan and a Struggling China 5. Trans-Pacific Development Agents: Chinese Female Students and American Rural Extension Education in the Republican Period 6. Educational Crisis in Shanxi: An Analysis of Brethren Mission Schools in Republican China PART III: Co-opting Students in Cold War/Maoist Era 7. The International Education Constituency and the Student Turn in Sino-American Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century 8. Preaching Anti-Americanism on Campus: College Students and the Propaganda State in Revolutionary China 9. Churchman, Banker, Educator: Lam Chi-Fung and American Church Resources in the Making of Hong Kong Baptist College PART IV: Confucius Institutes in the United States 10. China’s Soft Power Strategy at the Confucius Institutes in the U.S. 11. Confucius Institutes in the U.S.: Legal Considerations 12. [Un]Free Speech: Constructing Modernity in the Confucius Institutes Epilogue